Explorations in Indian Philosophy Essays by J. N. Mohanty Volume 1: Indian Philosophy

by Mohanty, J. N.; Gupta, Bina

• ISBN13: 9780195650839
• ISBN10: 0195650832
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-05-31
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This collection, bringing together essays written in the 1990s by leading philosopher J.N. Mohanty, provides valuable insights into Indian philosophy. Mohanty's writings dispel the characterization of Indian philosophy as simply a search for the spirit, showing how it is also a critical analysis of the data provided by experience. Editor Bina Gupta provides a useful introduction which contains a synopsis of the important themes and discussions that run throughout the book.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Editor's Introduction	ix
Author's Prologue	xxxviii
PART ONE
Nature of Indian Philosophy: Theory of Pramanas	3	(16)
Theory and Practice in Indian Philosophy	19	(16)
Is There an Irreducible Mode of Word-Generated Knowledge?	35	(21)
Indian Thought: Between Tradition and Modernity	56	(19)
Between Indology and Indian Philosophy	75	(8)
What the East and the West can Learn from Each Other in Philosophy	83	(8)
Practical Rationality in Indian Thought	91	(14)
PART TWO
Advaita Vedanta as Philosophy and as Religion	105	(9)
The Hindu Philosophers' Criticisms of Buddhist Philosophy	114	(12)
The Dialectic of Knowledge and Ignorance	126	(10)
A Critique of the Concept of Truth as Correspondence	136	(12)
Sense, Reference and the Ineffable in Indian Philosophy	148	(16)
Buddhism and Phenomenology	164	(7)
PART THREE
Does Sunyata Explain Anything? Commentary on Abe, Barnhart and Dallmayr	171	(5)
The Relevance of Gandhi and the History of a Symbol	176	(7)
Krishna Chandra Bhattacharyya's Theory of Meaning	183	(6)
Feeling, Poetics and Religion	189	(27)
Review of
Bimal Krishna Matilal's The Navya-Nyaya Doctrine of Negation	195	(14)
Pradyot Kumar Mukhopadhyaya's Indian Realism	209	(7)
N.V. Banerjee's Critique of Advaita Vedanta	216	(8)
Index	224